Home / Sports / Heartbreak for Bopanna and Edouard Roger as they crash out of the French Open

Heartbreak for Bopanna and Edouard Roger as they crash out of the French Open

Bopanna and Edouard Roger fall short in the quarters.

IANS | Paris | June 6, 2018 12:06 pm

Rohan Bopanna (File Photo: IANS)

Indian star Rohan Bopanna and his French partner E. Roger-Vasselin crashed out of the French Open tennis tournament following a straight-sets loss in the men’s doubles quarter-finals here on Tuesday.

The 13th seeded Indo-French combination went down 6-7, 2-6 to eighth seeds Nikola Mektic of Croatia and Austria’s Alexander Peya in an hour and 32 minutes.

In the semi-finals, Mektic and Peya will meet the winners of the last eight clash between Nicolás Jarry of Chile and Maximo Gonzalez of Argentina and the sixth seeded French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut.

This is the second time this year that Bopanna and Roger-Vasselin have come up short at a major tournament. The duo had earlier crashed out of the second round of the Australian Open in January year.